What a great era we live in, where some guy in his room can give world class commentary and instant max engine level recap to virtually every game in existence, be it a Fischer or a candidates game that ended right now. And do so brilliantly and consistently. Kudos to agad, the RUclips chess curator.
He's one of the best defender of all time. Everyone including Magnus has said it. May not be as brick wall as Petrosian but he's resourceful and has a dynamic approach to defense.
Yeah people if they give Nakamura a way to draw when he knows he can't win he'll get that draw 99 times out of 100, it's insane. Such a great defender.
For my layman eyes it looked like Hikaru was walking at the edge of thin ice. The slightest error and everything would be lost. Truly a masterful piece of aggressive defensive play. Thanks to both of them for the entertainment.
That was due to the unusual e5 in the Sicilian. He tried to trick fabi into taking the poisoned bishop, but didn't fall for it and got the draw. Up for grabs with 13 rounds to go.
@@aaronchan1088 for sure,he played a dubious line, but then Fabi would have been well prepared for any standard line. I think Nakamura knows that Fabi has the edge in classical, so he had to make it scrappy. No increment helped a lot too, you can see Fabi isn't a fast player. With more time he would have finished Hikaru easily. Exciting stuff! Let's see what happens with the white pieces
Great Game yes it did appear Fabi was on his way to a win Great play from Hikaru nice to see he has definitely shown up at this tournament with plans to win such a great tactician he is reminds me of the Rapport Magnus game where Rapport could just not put together what he needed to win Thanks Agadmator your video was the best part of this candidates start
Fun thing Antonio, I had a presentation, and I wanted to say this is from a really good article the link is the first link in the reference lists, I said “ the link is the first thing you will see in the description below”
Sir a few days back I have watched e5 in Sicilian analysed by GM Alex Colovic and watching this game on his advice so early though being mentally tired, Thanks.
My life has been super busy until it's time for either the Candidates or the World Championship. Though I have missed many of your videos lately, but I'll always be back for this one. Keep up the good work, mate.
I suspected fabi would not recapture the rook after naka played Rxf2... and of course, fabi not falling for the free bishop as naka would sac his queen to force the back rank mate.
@@nazarenoalmiron526 after naka played Rf6, if fabi took the free bishop, naka wins with Qf2+, followed by Qf1+ and Rxf1#. Naka was fortunate to hold fabi to a draw after playing e5 in the Sicilian. Fabi was correct not to play Kxf2 as it would lead to a draw, but he was held to a draw anyway. My $$$ is on pragg or naka.
Fabi and others are professional players with like more than 20 years of experience. There's no way any GM would fall for it especially in Classical . Back rank mates are the easiest visible threats @@aaronchan1088
34 seconds ago!!?? lets have few more hidden games of Mikhail Tal the magician from RIGA!!! great work agadmator. love your content and the research you do behind it. and btw where are you from?
@@gchomuk Most of them have a schtick, and that gets boring after a while. I like channels that just focus on the chess, rather than all the other BS that goes on.
Maybe is because I m totally stoned buuuuut.. it really looks like Hikaru prepared on purpous the continuation that would force Fabi to calculated the most and banked on Fabi being basically an engine because it looks like he memorized 25 moves deep with the best replies, just to keep playing the most annoying move to stay alive. It s kind of a sadistic plan, respect
Its very instructive how Cruana takes all the pieces that could control d5. Thtats why he makes Bxf6 and the knights and finally he has a light squares bishop that has uncontested control of d5
Excellent game. Both players are clearly motivated to hunt down the ailing Ding, the killer instinct is in full operation, the world chess champion title is up for grabs, it’s one of theirs, they need only reach out and take it! Exciting times….
I watched the FIDE livestream but it was very hard for me to enjoy the commentary because i am a beginner. Does anybody have a recommendation for a better stream, where they explain stuff in more depth maybe.
I can't say if the coverage will be simpler but lichess and chess dojo are streaming the games. These games are going to be over everone's head except for a handful of people.
@@loulasher I see. Maybe it's better to watch the stream without stressing about not understanding it and just wait for agadmator (or somebody elses) analysis.
@@tunkyw I think that's good, but try out all the streams. Irina Krush is great, esp with Vishy. She seems to know how to prompt him and to offer good ideas. Svidler is my favorite commentator, but he's working with Pragg. Chess is largely pattern recognition, so watching the games will give us all more of that. Jeremy Silman reviewing GMs games, any really, helps even when we have no idea what they are doing. Eventually the sense of it will come into focus, so long as we work on tactics and endings and the skills of chess. Good luck! Don't let bad losses or blunders get you down and have fun!
This game was such a shame I rly wanted to see fabi get that win with that advantage after Hikaru offered the room sacrifice But alas it was too little time to find the win. I like Hikaru but fabi rly did so many things well
find it strange that Fabi, after drawing with Magnus in 18' then getting destroyed in Rapid, has not been able to think a bit quicker in Classical so that when he reaches a critical position he would have a bit more time to find a excellent move to at least put more pressure on or win some material That move K-g2 smacks of trying to not lose something in a complicated position instead of looking deeper. Botvinnik always said one should work hard to strengthen your weakest ability. Advice from the Past is always good advice!
@6:25 why is it better for the bishop to take the black pawn of f7?? I realize that you'll have a back rank issue if you take the queen with the white rook on d1. But just move one of the pawns forward, no? and your king will be safe! still with a queen + bishop against a two rooks + bishop. Probably still losing, but its a lot fairer.
Request for agadmator. Hikaru always seems to have his pieces well connected for every contingency. Is this a system or method one can learn to improve? Thanks for another great video.
It's just grandmaster level play, they can predict the future moves and lines, their pattern recognition is hundreds of times better than normal people
1.7 is not a slight advantage in classical chess ♟️ Nakamura was lucky that caruana let him get with a draw, Caruana is the king of preparation, even naka surprised him in the beginning, but he flipped the tables in the middle game
What a great era we live in, where some guy in his room can give world class commentary and instant max engine level recap to virtually every game in existence, be it a Fischer or a candidates game that ended right now. And do so brilliantly and consistently. Kudos to agad, the RUclips chess curator.
It's a very interesting point in time indeed. With AI It's going to get even more exciting.
Beutifully put. In a world where there is so much to be upset about, it's good to appreciate to overlooked things.
Best comment 👍🏼
Pisses all over gothamchess's page how he didn't win an award and Gotham did is ludicrous!
Agad's videos are timeless. They are just beautiful@@davidcagnasso
Nakamura is very resourceful so accepting a slight worse endgame with drawing chances fits him well.
He's one of the best defender of all time. Everyone including Magnus has said it. May not be as brick wall as Petrosian but he's resourceful and has a dynamic approach to defense.
Exactly, truly and amazing game
Hikaru seems to have a better mindset. Not getting super stressed. I like his chances this year.
@@LukeLongboneOfficiali agree. He is very stress-free this year and play relatively relaxed. I root for him🎉🎉
Yeah people if they give Nakamura a way to draw when he knows he can't win he'll get that draw 99 times out of 100, it's insane. Such a great defender.
Thanks for doing this so quickly!
Hikaru posing the most unhinged but practical defense and pressuring on time is truly hikaru like
There is also no increments before move 40 if I understand correctly, so Hikaru's plan was a success because he drew Fabi with black.
Oh, I totally agree. Hikaru's attention to time as a strat must be up there with the all time greats.
Someone woke up from his warm bed to record this, Thanks man..
Candidates here finally
For my layman eyes it looked like Hikaru was walking at the edge of thin ice. The slightest error and everything would be lost. Truly a masterful piece of aggressive defensive play. Thanks to both of them for the entertainment.
What an epic clash😰😰😰
I thought Hikaru eas losing fkr sure. The man is a magician
That was due to the unusual e5 in the Sicilian. He tried to trick fabi into taking the poisoned bishop, but didn't fall for it and got the draw. Up for grabs with 13 rounds to go.
@@aaronchan1088 for sure,he played a dubious line, but then Fabi would have been well prepared for any standard line. I think Nakamura knows that Fabi has the edge in classical, so he had to make it scrappy. No increment helped a lot too, you can see Fabi isn't a fast player. With more time he would have finished Hikaru easily. Exciting stuff! Let's see what happens with the white pieces
@@joshuamphande2272I wouldn't say Fabi has an edge over him in Classical, in fact Hikaru has a lifetime positive score against Fabi in classical.
@@KemosabeTBC interesting.....I didn't know that. That Nakamura sure is slippery
The best chess commentary…no ego, straight shooter who’s a Gentleman & a Scholar.
i’ve heard stockfish uses agadmators analysis to evaluate the position
7:25 Anand while doing the commentary, immediately found Qe7 and the exact same continuation for black.
It's a lot easier to find when there's no stakes for you
@@iliketurtles5180 I know that.
Very high-quality recap! Please do Alireza vs. Pragg, that game was really cool
#suggestion
Already done 🙂
Antonio , thanks for your work today !
Thank you Sir for your coverage!!
Wow, good game, very evenly matched. Thanks for unravelling some of these lines for us.
Awesome battle!
The initial few moves by Hikaru were as if he's playing a late night bullet game. Crazy stuff! 😅
Great stuff!
before the finished , agad uploaded the game , thankfull our antonio 🌷
Great Game yes it did appear Fabi was on his way to a win Great play from Hikaru nice to see he has definitely shown up at this tournament with plans to win such a great tactician he is reminds me of the Rapport Magnus game where Rapport could just not put together what he needed to win Thanks Agadmator your video was the best part of this candidates start
Fun thing Antonio, I had a presentation, and I wanted to say this is from a really good article the link is the first link in the reference lists, I said “ the link is the first thing you will see in the description below”
Sir a few days back I have watched e5 in Sicilian analysed by GM Alex Colovic and watching this game on his advice so early though being mentally tired, Thanks.
Thanks
Thank you Agad 😊
Was waiting on this one.
I thought they were tomorrow and i missed the round
Thankfully agad is here for the rescue
My life has been super busy until it's time for either the Candidates or the World Championship. Though I have missed many of your videos lately, but I'll always be back for this one. Keep up the good work, mate.
great and quick analysis
The game didn't even happen and Antonio already delivers :)
I suspected fabi would not recapture the rook after naka played Rxf2... and of course, fabi not falling for the free bishop as naka would sac his queen to force the back rank mate.
I don't understand what you mean. Fabi has hung back-rank mate multiple times in his professional career.
@@nazarenoalmiron526 after naka played Rf6, if fabi took the free bishop, naka wins with Qf2+, followed by Qf1+ and Rxf1#. Naka was fortunate to hold fabi to a draw after playing e5 in the Sicilian. Fabi was correct not to play Kxf2 as it would lead to a draw, but he was held to a draw anyway. My $$$ is on pragg or naka.
Fabi and others are professional players with like more than 20 years of experience. There's no way any GM would fall for it especially in Classical . Back rank mates are the easiest visible threats @@aaronchan1088
Please put clock time
What a great first round
Wow, such a strong positional game played by both!
This is a great tournament and first day and all but...we need Nodirbek!!
No pause the video moment this time :(
34 seconds ago!!??
lets have few more hidden games of Mikhail Tal the magician from RIGA!!!
great work agadmator. love your content and the research you do behind it. and btw where are you from?
Croatia, I guess
They don't call Hikaru a resilient defender for nothing.
Hikaru against SO ... wow what a game Hikaru attack was sick.. he tried sacrificing everything and got the W
Which one?
I think we're gonna see fireworks 🎆 in these candidates. There are gonna be some super cool games 💯
Insta vid upload?? Thanks Agad!
Thanks Agadmator
#suggestion Alireza VS Prag
Hikaru is pretty good for a streamer😎
Magnus the RUclipsr is pretty good. Hikaru is just decent.
True. Of course I can't stomach watching any of the streamers. They each seem to rub me the wro g way for one reason or another.
@@gchomuk Most of them have a schtick, and that gets boring after a while.
I like channels that just focus on the chess, rather than all the other BS that goes on.
Maybe is because I m totally stoned buuuuut.. it really looks like Hikaru prepared on purpous the continuation that would force Fabi to calculated the most and banked on Fabi being basically an engine because it looks like he memorized 25 moves deep with the best replies, just to keep playing the most annoying move to stay alive. It s kind of a sadistic plan, respect
I've been looking forward to the candidates, this game, and this commentary, not necessarily in that order!
Thanks agad. We know you put in a lot of work during this tournament. We are grateful.
Wonderful commentary and analysis
Agad is in Candidates mode and we love to see it 🫡
Its very instructive how Cruana takes all the pieces that could control d5. Thtats why he makes Bxf6 and the knights and finally he has a light squares bishop that has uncontested control of d5
Excellent game. Both players are clearly motivated to hunt down the ailing Ding, the killer instinct is in full operation, the world chess champion title is up for grabs, it’s one of theirs, they need only reach out and take it! Exciting times….
Crazy how hikaru held with two pass pawns.
Classic game, classic commentary, this. Is the magic happening
Agad is a god.
Hikaru is so fast in making moves 😮😮
What a game. This game was so tactical which both of them negated very well.
It looked a bit like "Hikaru did care" to hold a draw.
Trading all the juicers.
he is struggling to draw round 1 not a good sign for him
I mean, it's not like he's going to try to lose
@@ndnd7614 He played with black and didn't struggle all that much. Fabi never had a decisive advantage.
@@ndnd7614 He drew with black after an adventurous opening choice against the hardest opponent in the tournament. I think he'll be fine
Qf4 followed by Queen exchange?? white might have a chance at the end with the extra pawn?
Classic hikaru with the tricky sacrifices..Go hikaru 🎉
I watched the FIDE livestream but it was very hard for me to enjoy the commentary because i am a beginner. Does anybody have a recommendation for a better stream, where they explain stuff in more depth maybe.
I can't say if the coverage will be simpler but lichess and chess dojo are streaming the games. These games are going to be over everone's head except for a handful of people.
@@loulasher I see. Maybe it's better to watch the stream without stressing about not understanding it and just wait for agadmator (or somebody elses) analysis.
@@tunkyw I think that's good, but try out all the streams. Irina Krush is great, esp with Vishy. She seems to know how to prompt him and to offer good ideas.
Svidler is my favorite commentator, but he's working with Pragg.
Chess is largely pattern recognition, so watching the games will give us all more of that. Jeremy Silman reviewing GMs games, any really, helps even when we have no idea what they are doing. Eventually the sense of it will come into focus, so long as we work on tactics and endings and the skills of chess. Good luck! Don't let bad losses or blunders get you down and have fun!
Hikaru was blitzing moves somewhere to 12th move, with time 1h:50min, where Fabi went down to 1:20min. Insane.
Hikaru goihg into this tournament with the least pressure
Not a single game from the women‘s candidate tournament is surprising…
Where’s Hans?
in my basement
Hahaha 😂😂😂
He went to the store getting some beans
Who?
@@westcoast9387 gonna send Bruce Willis and a bunch of homies with a blowtorch to go get him 🤣
please add time stamp if possible, great video though, thanks
These matches are very late starting at 9pm for us in Africa
12 am in india
and i watch at 3 am
Hikaru still drawing with a dubious line. White was crushing but defense was too strong.
The games starts at 14h/2p.m in Brazil. At least a good thing of being South American. Gotta only buy a new phone after today's theft we suffered 😅
Happy birthday master antonio..😂😂😂
After knight sac , i thought bishop takes on f7 follow by queen d5 check?
Kudos to agad
6:43 I think what Agad meant to say was that there is a discovery from the queen on d8 attacking rook on d1 threatening mate..
Fabi's gon be next world champ
I've gotten used to you saying "As of move X, we have a completely new game" but not today!
I'm rooting for hikaru all the way.
What about Rb5 attacking the Queen instead of Kg2? At 12:28
This game was such a shame
I rly wanted to see fabi get that win with that advantage after Hikaru offered the room sacrifice
But alas it was too little time to find the win. I like Hikaru but fabi rly did so many things well
Great coverage by adadmator.
Audio is weak. Anyone notices this?
"sorry about that?"😂
find it strange that Fabi, after drawing with Magnus in 18' then getting destroyed in Rapid, has not been able to think a bit quicker in Classical so that when he reaches a critical position he would have a bit more time to find a excellent move to at least put more pressure on or win some material That move K-g2 smacks of trying to not lose something in a complicated position instead of looking deeper. Botvinnik always said one should work hard to strengthen your weakest ability. Advice from the Past is always good advice!
Candidates is here! Thank you as always for your wonderful coverage Antonio
Great job covering this! I wonder if Hikaru will post his explanation or refrain?
maybe next month, with lots of chess to be played he will need all of the energy usually devoted to content creation to win this tournament
he's already posted
Amazing game!
Is this tournament rated?
Yes
I am disappointed with lack of analysis of the handshake
At 11:44 why not rook to b5 chasing away the queen and white can win the black dark square bishop
@6:25 why is it better for the bishop to take the black pawn of f7?? I realize that you'll have a back rank issue if you take the queen with the white rook on d1. But just move one of the pawns forward, no? and your king will be safe! still with a queen + bishop against a two rooks + bishop. Probably still losing, but its a lot fairer.
Just to correct myself in a sense that this e5 with d6 backward pawn actually watched on Chess Wisdom channel.
Request for agadmator. Hikaru always seems to have his pieces well connected for every contingency. Is this a system or method one can learn to improve? Thanks for another great video.
It's just grandmaster level play, they can predict the future moves and lines, their pattern recognition is hundreds of times better than normal people
coordination of pieces is one of the most important parameters of a position you need to strive for in every game
"the Speed demon Ikaru Nakamura". Nice one❤
🔥🔥
Two Titans of chess these days.
Wow. What a game.
Fabiano lost a slight advantage when he refused to exchange the queen
1.7 is not a slight advantage in classical chess ♟️
Nakamura was lucky that caruana let him get with a draw,
Caruana is the king of preparation, even naka surprised him in the beginning, but he flipped the tables in the middle game
I have just finished seeing the previous video and this one appears seconds after.
This is Super GM level stuff for sure!
Hear Hear!
What a speed Agadmator faster than hikaru
Cool
Caruana so close in this game... 😢
😂😂
I always wonder, is it objectively a draw, or would an engine be able to win it ( vs another engine )
#suggestion Alireza VS Pragg